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While Ihrig duly points out that there is no clear binding evidence that Germany was directly involved in the Armenian genocide or that the latter was a direct rehearsal for the Holocaust, there are simply too many factors which connect these two cases together after all. Germany was, through its foreign policy as well as direct presence in Ottoman Turkey, at least an "enabler" of the Armenian genocide. And while there are no direct lines between the Armenian and Jewish cases of genocide, the Armenian fate played an important role in the metamorphoses of the German political and social mindset in regard to solving similar problems for achieving certain political aims. "Justifying Genocide" is a highly welcomed contribution to the field of genocide studies and the Armenian and Holocaust cases in particular. Ihrig's meticulous research has undoubtedly enriched the perception of these two major cases of genocide and how they are interlaced with each other, both by the nature of the events but also concrete connections of individuals, ideologies, and policies.